6.22.2004

Dump of Pentagon Paperwork

As if volume alone proves your case (along with the adage, "if you can't dazzle them with your brilliance, baffle them with bullshit"), the government released a gazillion pages of paperwork they say proves that neither the president nor Secretary of Defensiveness Donald Rumsfeld ordered or condoned torture in Iraq.

My question: are we sure it proves anything except that they cover their tracks? I don't think so, although I've yet to go through the mess, and the press seems happy to just accept the government's statement that "there, it's proven now!"